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The recent years have given rise to a large number of techniques for "looking around corners", i.e., for reconstructing occluded objects from time-resolved measurements of indirect light reflections off a wall. While the direct view of…

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The cosmological global (sky-averaged) 21-cm signal is a powerful tool to probe the evolution of the intergalactic medium (IGM) in high-redshift Universe ($z \leq 6$). One of the biggest observational challenges is to remove the foreground…

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Achieving high spatial resolution is the goal of many imaging systems. Designing a high-resolution lens with diffraction-limited performance over a large field of view remains a difficult task in imaging system design. On the other hand,…

Face recognition under extreme head poses is a challenging task. Ideally, a face recognition system should perform well across different head poses, which is known as pose-invariant face recognition. To achieve pose invariance, current…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-06 Patrik Mesec , Alan Jović

Foreground removal presents a significant obstacle in both current and forthcoming intensity mapping surveys. While numerous techniques have been developed that show promise in simulated datasets, their efficacy often diminishes when…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2024-08-14 Jiacheng Ding , Xin Wang , Ue-Li Pen , Xiao-Dong Li

Fourier ptychography microscopy(FP) is a recently developed computational imaging approach for microscopic super-resolution imaging. By turning on each light-emitting-diode (LED) located on different position on the LED array sequentially…

Optics · Physics 2022-02-22 Delong Yang , Shaohui Zhang , Chuanjian Zheng , Guocheng Zhou , Lei Cao , Yao Hu , Qun Hao

High-precision scene parsing tasks, including image matting and dichotomous segmentation, aim to accurately predict masks with extremely fine details (such as hair). Most existing methods focus on salient, single foreground objects. While…

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The reconstruction of indoor scenes from multi-view RGB images is challenging due to the coexistence of flat and texture-less regions alongside delicate and fine-grained regions. Recent methods leverage neural radiance fields aided by…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-08-14 Sheng Ye , Yubin Hu , Matthieu Lin , Yu-Hui Wen , Wang Zhao , Yong-Jin Liu , Wenping Wang

Detecting and characterizing the Epoch of Reionization and Cosmic Dawn via the redshifted 21-cm hyperfine line of neutral hydrogen will revolutionize the study of the formation of the first stars, galaxies, black holes and intergalactic gas…

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Recently, the progress of learning-by-synthesis has proposed a training model for synthetic images, which can effectively reduce the cost of human and material resources. However, due to the different distribution of synthetic images…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-02-17 Yuxiao Yan , Yang Yan , Jinjia Peng , Huibing Wang , Xianping Fu

Establishing semantic correspondence across images when the objects in the images have undergone complex deformations remains a challenging task in the field of computer vision. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical method to tackle this…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-06-12 Akila Pemasiri , Kien Nguyen , Sridha Sridhara , and Clinton Fookes

A simple coherent-imaging method due to Paganin et al. is widely employed for phase-amplitude reconstruction of samples using a single paraxial x-ray propagation-based phase-contrast image. The method assumes that the sample-to-detector…

We present in this paper a new Bayesian semi-blind approach for foreground removal in observations of the 21-cm signal with interferometers. The technique, which we call HIEMICA (HI Expectation-Maximization Independent Component Analysis),…

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Raman spectroscopy has attracted interest as a non-invasive optical technique to study the composition and structure of a wide range of materials at the microscopic level. The intrinsic fluorescence background can be orders of magnitude…

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Image harmonization is an important step in photo editing to achieve visual consistency in composite images by adjusting the appearances of foreground to make it compatible with background. Previous approaches to harmonize composites are…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-06-02 Konstantin Sofiiuk , Polina Popenova , Anton Konushin

Fourier ptychographic microscopy is a computational imaging technique that provides quantitative phase information and high resolution over a large field-of-view. Although the technique presents numerous advantages over conventional…

Optics · Physics 2021-09-16 Eric Li , Stuart Sherwin , Gautam Gunjala , Laura Waller

The upcoming Square Kilometre Array Observatory (SKAO) will produce images of neutral hydrogen distribution during the epoch of reionization by observing the corresponding 21-cm signal. However, the 21-cm signal will be subject to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2024-02-29 Michele Bianco , Sambit. K. Giri , David Prelogović , Tianyue Chen , Florent G. Mertens , Emma Tolley , Andrei Mesinger , Jean-Paul Kneib

In a sky-averaged 21-cm signal experiment, the uncertainty on the extracted signal depends mainly on the covariance between the foreground and 21-cm signal models. In this paper, we construct these models using the modes of variation…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2023-04-19 Anchal Saxena , P. Daniel Meerburg , Eloy de Lera Acedo , Will Handley , Léon V. E. Koopmans

Foreground detection has been widely studied for decades due to its importance in many practical applications. Most of the existing methods assume foreground and background show visually distinct characteristics and thus the foreground can…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2017-07-12 Shuai Li , Dinei Florencio , Yaqin Zhao , Chris Cook , Wanqing Li